Art
Rendering Rhythm and Bodies in 3D
With bursts of neon cones and discs against a black void, clips from graphic artist MELTMIRROR's newest music video suggest what Kandinsky might've come up with had he been able to experiment with 3D modeling.
Review
Film
At Tribeca Film Festival, Experiencing Submersion, Blindness, and Incarceration in VR
The communal experience of watching a film in theaters is a prime part of moviegoing, but at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, solitary visual consumption is receiving ample attention.
Film
Pensive Short Films About Peculiar and Forgotten Places
The texture and peculiarity of history, place, and the everyday color a ruminative set of short films in this year’s Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Art
At the AIPAD Photography Show, Training Your Eyes to See More
A photographer myself, I go to the Photography Show for the same reason I go to any exhibition: to learn.
Art
The Spectacle of the "Other" in a Grotesque Zoo
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Contrary to his gentle voice and friendly manner, Lavar Munroe’s first U.S. museum exhibition is filled with grotesque half-animal, half-human figures wielding hostile gloves and knives like predators.
Books
After 25 Years, an Influential Epistolary Novel Series Mails Its Last Letter
Griffin Moss, a lonely painter in London, and his mysterious muse Sabine Strohem were first introduced in the 1991 best-seller Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence, an epistolary novel composed of extensively illustrated postcards and removable handwritten letters by author and artist
Art
Three Native American Artists Challenge a White Ethnographer’s Legacy
PORTLAND, Ore. — If you type the words “Native American” into Google image search, the majority of the results will be Edward Curtis photographs
Art
A Photographer Who Worked Through the Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany Has Her US Debut
Elisabeth Hase documented Germany's transition from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich and its postwar devastation.
Art
Cycling Through Fischli and Weiss’s Impish World
Fischli and Weiss's sprawling retrospective creates a viewing experience that is funny, frustrating, belabored, and, ultimately, I think, productively unsettling.
Performance
An Opera of Love Songs to Science
"Maybe there’s a physicist sitting right beside you, who can explain this better than we do, but we're in the business of art, so we’ll make a metaphor," sings Hai-Ting Chinn in Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments.
Art
In a Game, Foraging for Mushrooms with a Grandmother Who Listens
Lieve Oma is a game in which you hunt for mushrooms with your grandmother beneath trees saturated with autumnal colors. It's also about how a simple conversation can indicate so much more about a relationship, where the words unsaid echo as much as those spoken aloud.
Art
The Aesthetics of Paperwork and Cultural Theory According to Seth Siegelaub
AMSTERDAM — All of Siegelaub’s many practices can be found to revolve around one proposal: The way culture is communicated is symptomatic of the way it is produced.